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Sometimes I end up going on tangents the way Pinkie does. There are times when it's funny or interesting and leads to some meaningful discussions. Most of the times, I just get annoyed looks, rolled eyes, and statements of "You're overthinking this."

Now don't get me wrong, I love the MLPFIM community.
But there are some parts of it that I just don't like.
Chickenloo. What was supposed to be a one time insult to her bravery, ends up to far.
Can you think of similar things?

ITT: People turning their noses up at their least favorite limited community memes, like some kind of uppity internet connoisseur. Really?

Sorry, I guess that's a weakness of mine: I don't like people getting snobbish over, of all things, lame jokes. Or the fact that memes are a thing. I don't like some of these things either, but I believe they have the right to exist and I don't think fostering negativity around them really helps matters.

I tend to bring it up in my fanfics with Celestia with some humor. She's aware of memes like 'Molestia' from her citizens and doesn't get it, but she never does anything to stop them. She leaves them with their free speech.

Though she owns up to some cause she does like to troll on occasion and cake is delicious. ^_^

Some folks made a habit of flipping the table because they couldn't stand the potato salad others keep putting on it. Meanwhile, there's a superbly stocked pantry and fridge in the corner of a state-of-the-art kitchen.

The percentages in Sturgeon's Revelation indicate that the amount of quality work available to us increases proportionately to the garbage available. Even we see the ratio of garbage increase, 2% of a thousand options is still a larger number than 10% of one hundred.

I second Digo on this one, check out my spoiler free reviews and you will note that nothing I put in the review actually "spoils" a scene from the episode... and no I didn't notice her I was enjoying the episode. See my review on Tuesday and we can talk about the episode then

Did someone say shenanigans?! Mwahahaha! Boy, do I have a tale to tell....No, no, turn down your expectations. It's not an epic, per se, but it's one of those typical runs for my group.

Alright, our newly formed group of shadowrunners are chilling at our fixer's place (trying hard not to die from boredom after the incident that made our rigger go into hiding caused jobs for us to dry up) when the old dwarf comes in and tells us about an open wet works job from Aztechnology (Basically a Microsoft/Walmart hybrid with an Aztec theme). The catch being that the deed can't be traced to them in any way and that it look like Renraku (Japan/Google/Apple Hybrid) did it.

Despite having barely anything to go on, we immediately jump on it. I, being the only decker (read: hacker) in the group, get to work on finding out everything we can about the girl we're going to kill. Naturally, this results in our resident speed junkie elf (read: ridiculous agility and reaction enhanced by cybernetics) sticking my poor decker's finger up his nose and our resident troll to draw on his face. Being jacked into the matrix (read: internet) basically turns him into a vegetable while his mind runs around to do his thing, so there was nothing he could do by the time they leave. Do keep this in the back of your mind, because I certainly did.

Anyway, since I am the proud owner of a legit Aztechnology limited SIN, I manage to get everything we need to properly scope out the place and get a good sense on what we're getting ourselves into (In 10 minutes flat, no less. Everyone got suspicious but I just bragged that I was just that awesome and no one understood the matrix that well so they just shrugged). Apparently our mark is the last youth of a bloodline descending from one of the almighty higher ups that basically is a threat to some of her relatives bid to keep climbing the corporate latter. Knowing this, we immediately change our plans to protect this girl until the people offering the job raise the price high enough that we can make a killing off of killing her....*Ahem* So our cyborg and elf go scoping the corporate-owned apartment complex she's staying at while our face/leader keeps asking me to find out more info on the girl.

A botch roll on our cyborg's part reveals our presence to a couple of other shadowrunners vying for the same job and he gets tagged while the elf scales the building where she noticed a sniper was about to take her friend out. Another botch roll means that, instead of knocking out said sniper, his head gets caved into the wall. One "sorry" note later and she gets inside the complex while our cyborg has to go to a different place to get debugged.

Said debugging was tasked to my decker and our troll. It was then that I realize that sarcastically saying "punch here" and pointing to the cyborg's head to a... simple minded troll was a bad idea in many, many ways. Oh well, we annihilated the bug and I learned I am the only one with first aid as I manage to piece together our cyborg's face. Don't worry, it gets worse.

So we get more info about our mark, her habit for going to a club that none of us has a prayer to get into, and the feeling that she may have a significant other. She believes us when we say we want to protect her and we get to work making it so. Our sniper and cyborg has an interesting incident where the sniper takes out a shadowrunner and our cyborg realizes that his code of honor against harming shadowrunners was going to be a big pain in the butt for this. So everyone decided that that face shattering punch got rid of that for him and now he just has a phobia of trolls. It only comes into effect in close combat, but I still feel bad about it regardless. But only a little. This is the same group that lets horrible things happen to my cleric in DnD 5E, so it's nice to finally not be the one to have to deal with this crap.

Now remember in the beginning where my decker got his finger stuck up his nose? Well, he was curious how the elf managed to get in so easily since security is extremely tight in the place. Turns out he's secretly a liaison for the elven nation of Great Britain New Avalon with Aztechnology. At this point, I know two things about the elven character: She hates her nation and she is a complete punk. So I immediately find a vacant room and use her liason status to set things up so we can all have access to the complex if we need it...and get it to look as elvish as possible as payback for the finger in nose thing. I pause when I remember that it will be pretty easy for her to figure out who did this, but my GM mistakes my brainstorming for me actually taking action so...suffice to say, my decking rig sucks and the request gets sent and granted in a matter of seconds.

One rather angry and swear-filled call later and we all become the lowly "human" entourage for an elven liaison (New Avalon is racist and doesn't like trolls, so I had to make some "tweaks" with some of the profiles to avoid suspicion. Did I mention how much I love photoshop? I really love photoshop). This also had the unintended side effect of giving us access to the bar our mark frequents, so I became the hero of the hour for all of this. Heck, I even got extra karma for coming up with this whole thing and I only did it for petty revenge and to get a good place to camp out.

Thus the session ended with the whole group moving in and our elf gathering all the elven "stuff" in a corner before purging it with fire. The irony is that our elf said in no uncertain terms that she's going to keep the place permanently. Eh, small price to pay for not losing my head and having some blackmail on a fellow runner for use later.

Yeah, everyone knows pretty much everything out of character as far as reasons go. Really, the whole "we'll protect her until the price goes up" bit came about from a comment I made about how I really hope this job will get me a new deck (I may or may not have spent most of my money on cybernetics and my Remington Floorsweeper before realizing that cyberdecks are expensive) and everyone else working out how to make that happen.

In fact, the GM was the one that joked about the whole "punch here" thing and I decided it was funny enough to have my character say in a deadpan way. Then the Troll player decided it would be funny to take it literally. So yeah, we really don't try to keep anyone in the dark as to why we're doing things out of character.

In character though? That's a different story depending on the information. None of us know much of anything about anybody else's characters in game. Not that it really matters as long as we get paid in the end and no backstabbing happens.

But yeah, I agree with you. It would be interesting to see what everyone else thought of the session. I'll have to ask them next time.